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Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Henry Axelrod. By Henry Axelrod, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBeing able to access files via standard file protocols from one or more locations is important to many organizations. In this post, I will explore how Nasuni’s solution allows customers to access files across many locations through the use of a physical or virtual appliance. You can run these appliances in a data center or the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. Nasuni is an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner with the AWS Storage Competency. With industry-leading encryption, local performance, and pay-as-you-go pricing, Nasuni ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. File Gateway provides on-premises applications with file-based, cached access to virtually unlimited cloud storage. With this launch, you can configure Amazon CloudWatch Logging to log configuration errors, such as insufficient bucket access privileges, or when applications use the gateway to access files that have transitioned to long-term Amazon S3 storage classes. You can subscribe to these log entries and be notified to correct the errors. Normal operations can be resumed and your file share clients can continue to access their data. You can use the new Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor CPU, cache disk, and RAM allocated ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; Teachers do more than just teach. They’re also asked to be social workers, a medical triage team, psychologists, and more. It also falls on teachers to record the issues of kids with specialneeds in their classrooms, often hours after such issues have occurred. This data may only then make it to parents and administrators weeks or months later, resulting in more pressure on teachers and inadequate data to appropriately address issues. In 2018, Nikody Keating launched mytaptrack to help teachers quickly and easily track the issues of kids with special needs. Rather than manually filling ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Perimeter security helps secure Apache Hadoop cluster resources to users accessing from outside the cluster. It enables a single access point for all REST and HTTP interactions with Apache Hadoop clusters and simplifies client interaction with the cluster. For example, client applications must acquire Kerberos tickets using Kinit or SPNEGO before interacting with services on Kerberos enabled clusters. In this post, we walk through setup of Apache Knox to enable perimeter security for Amazon EMR clusters.It provides the following benefits: Simplify authentication of various Hadoop services and UIs Hide service-specific URLs/Ports by acting as a Proxy Enable SSL ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business intelligence service that makes it easy to deliver insights to everyone in your organization. As a fully managed service, Amazon QuickSight lets you easily create and publish interactive dashboards that can then be accessed from any device and embedded into your applications, portals, and websites.Amazon QuickSight supports identity federation through Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0) in both Standard and Enterprise editions. With federation, you can manage users using your enterprise identity provider (IdP) and pass them to Amazon QuickSight at log-in. Such IdPs include Microsoft Active ... Read More

Feed: CronJ. Author: Vignesh M; AI is been in our imagination for the last 40 50 years.In fact, from all the way from 2001 Space Odyssey to even like Ex Machina, there’s been a lot of movies about our fascination with AI.Unfortunately, that’s been a very negative twist around AI because ultimately all those movies are about the machines turning on humans and ultimately killing them. So I would like to offer a more optimistic outlook about AI. But it’s clear that this is something that’s really caught our imagination.The other thing that was clear was that this is all ... Read More

Feed: CronJ. Author: Vignesh M; Artificial intelligence is not a new technology. We’ve been doing R&D; in AI for over 60 years and just in the last two or three years it’s exploded into public consciousness. So much so that you need augmentation or stop action photography in order to resolve the blur of events. Manufacturing is fundamentally about manipulating atoms and molecules. And intelligence drives manufacturing whether you’re chipping Flint or bone or soldering or welding or 3d printing, it’s all about improving our knowledge of how to manipulate atoms and molecules. Here are a hundred startups in AI ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; When choosing an external hard drive, you need to consider capacity. Overspending on storage space you’ll never use is not fun, and finding out that you need more capacity after a few months is annoying. For most people, we recommend a 2TB external hard drive, which provides enough storage for backup while being suitable for a few extra files. In this guide to the best 2TB external hard drive, we’re going to show you our favorite ones, pulling from our best external hard drive guide. We have five options to choose from, each offering something ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. As communities around the world grow, traffic congestion problems increase. Cities and states in addition to regional authorities face decisions around how to modernize, maintain, and budget for upgrades to their transportation network to improve the quality of life and safety of their residents.Congestion itself is not the problem, but rather a sign of a city’s prosperity. Economic growth, job creation, and increased mobility are outcomes of a healthy city, state, or region. So as congestion becomes a way of life, how do transportation officials prioritize decisions and measure the results ... Read More